I'll just slip this one quietly in here.
If anyone has recently visited Phnom Penh Safari World, or is planning to go - please send me a PM. Thanx.

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 7:22 pm This guy has bought a parrot in Battambang and has it in a cage that would be criminal in developed countries:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... H-h7Zyet7s



I want to buy the bird to get it out of that cage - it's a mustached parrot and I already keep others of the same species.

I'm not a member of that group and don't know much about Google groups. Is anyone a member of the group, and could contact the seller for me?

Further, can anyone assist or advise on getting it to PP?

How is it that you came to find our about this guy and his bird?

I'm torn between your stated concern for the bird and whatever investment opportunity obtaining a bird of this species might be for you.

Tarndog wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:42 pm

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 7:22 pm

How is it that you came to find our about this guy and his bird?

I'm torn between your stated concern for the bird and whatever investment opportunity obtaining a bird of this species might be for you.

Given your reaction about being cheated out of 2, sometimes 4 cents, I have no doubt the money will be your sole motivator.

Tarndog wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 4:42 pm How is it that you came to find our about this guy and his bird?

Another member who does not read the threads but comes out with a knee jerk statement.

StroppyChops wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:27 pm

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 7:47 pm Onya Chops. Well done.
Let us know how you go.

Not holding out much hope and I'm confident there are many more for sale that will end up in exactly the same sized cage, but this is the one I can see, so this is the one I'll try to help. I already have a dominant male of the same species, so I'm not sure how that will work out, but step by step.

Stroppy, I used to have a Parrot until one day it got very sick.

I had to take it to the Vet.
The vet said, "I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is, your bird has chirpees.
The good news is, it's tweetable."


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The Whisperer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 6:44 pm Stroppy, I used to have a Parrot until one day it got very sick.

I had to take it to the Vet.
The vet said, "I have good news and I have bad news. The bad news is, your bird has chirpees.
The good news is, it's tweetable."

That's pretty bad. I like it.

hanno wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:25 pm Used to see thousands of Red-breasted Parakeets (its real name) in Cambodia. Alas, no more...

In the UK and Ireland they were always known as Moustached Parakeets, which I think is a better description as there are a lot of parrots/ parakeets that have redder breasts than them. It's terrible that they, as you say, have declined in numbers so much.

John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:07 pm

hanno wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:25 pm Used to see thousands of Red-breasted Parakeets (its real name) in Cambodia. Alas, no more...

In the UK and Ireland they were always known as Moustached Parakeets, which I think is a better description as there are a lot of parrots/ parakeets that have redder breasts than them. It's terrible that they, as you say, have declined in numbers so much.

Moustached parrots/parakeets are a sub-species of red-breasted parakeets (and as you say their breast colour is not red) so technically both are correct although I've only ever heard them called moustached parrots.

Try asking where American parakeets come from...

When I was in my teens I built a lot of aviaries and my father was into pigeon racing so we ended up with a whole lot of animals. We had all sorts of birds - Amazon Parrots, Senegals, Macaws, Cockatoos, Congo Grays, Hill Mynah, Barrabands, Rosellas, Bourkes and a whole load of others like Peking Robins (extremely evil birds), and Red-Headed Conures (even more evil) and quails, doves, finches, prize canaries and budgerigars (I never got that), and all sorts of reptiles and rabbits and marmosets and whatever. My dad had a fucking crocodile he used to walk around the garden but I never saw it myself as I was otherwise occupied in some other country. I got a bit bothered about the whole thing after a while, it seemed that while we could do our best to look after animals (some monkeys we had were surplus from zoos that would have been destroyed if we didn't take them), I always felt terrible selling them to some old widow who might keep them alone for ever. I got it all shut down after a while. We still have a Congo Gray that we got in about 1989, my parents used to keep it but my elder sister looks after it now. It loves me but if he doesn't clearly like you he might take your hand off.


Here's to Mr Choobs, top geezer, swears like a trooper etc. About 36 years old, hit him up.